Most people consider mushrooms to be the small, ugly cousins of the plant kingdom, but theirs is a surprisingly beautiful and wonderful world waiting to be explored. These beautiful mushrooms, captured by enthusiastic nature photographers, are a far cry from the ones you find in the woods or your local grocery store.
Most mushrooms, as we know them, are actually just the reproductive structure of the fungus they belong to – their fungal networks expand far further underground, and some fungi don't even sprout the sort of mushrooms that we're used to seeing. In fact, depending on your definition of “organism,” the largest living organism in the world is a fungus – there's a honey mushroom colony in Oregon that occupies about 2,000 acres of land!
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Puffballs
I stepped on one last week in sandals! The cold yellow powder spraying on my foot definitely made me a little more cautious walking around!
Mycena Chlorophos
Phallus Indusiatus
Schizophyllum Commune
Panus Fasciatus
Porcelain Fungus
Cup Fungus
Hydnellum Peckii
Coprinus Comatus
Mushrooms With A Snail
Geastrum Minimum
Aseroe Rubra
Puffball Mushroom
Very handy mushroom. If you pit it on a bleeding wound it stops the bleeding with an antiseptic effect.
Tiny Golden Mushrooms
Chorioactis
Amanita Muscaria
They believe that people ate magic mushrooms and thought these were what is now 'Santa Claus' and that reindeer could fly.
Tiny Orange Mushrooms
Panaleous Sphinctrinus
Such simple mushrooms, but its the background that really catches the eye.
Clavaria Zollingeri
Oudemansiella Mucida
Entoloma Hochstetteri
Xylaria Hypoxylon
That's a damn great shot !!!! About the mushroom - no words needed....
Clavaria Zollingeri
Scutellinia Scutellata
Bay Bolete
Stoenescu, all your photographs are so beautiful. And every time I see one I can tell that it's yours, without seeing your name under it.
Helvella Lacunosa
Wonderland Mushroom
Marasmius Rotula
Purple Mushrooms In The Woods
Morchella
